On 21-10-15 21:19, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 18/10/15 16:38, Bas Couwenberg wrote: >> For the Debian GIS team I'd like to transition to the recently released >> GDAL 1.11.3 as soon as possible. >> >> GDAL 2.0.1 was released along with 1.11.3 but several reverse dependencies >> still need patches to support GDAL 2.0, as recently discussed on the >> debian-gis list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2015/10/msg00022.html >> >> gdal (1.11.3+dfsg-1~exp1) is ready in experimental for about a month >> now. >> >> Because of the problematic mix of C & C++ symbols provided by libgdal, >> as discussed in the previous transition (#756867), the virtual ABI package >> provided by libgdal1i has changed to libgdal.so.1-1.11.3. >> >> The ben file used to prepare this transition is attached. > > I think you forgot to attach it? Anyway I've created one. > Please check if it looks correct.
I guess I did, the ben file used to prepare the transition is now attached, but the one you created will do too. >> Despite only marking the packages relying on C++ symbols as bad, I think >> all affected reverse dependencies should be binNMUed as part of this >> transition. > > Why is that? Mostly to be better safe than sorry. > If the C ABI is stable, then there's no need to binNMU the > rdeps. If it isn't, then you should change the package name. > > If we binNMU them now, the binNMUs will migrate to testing before the new > gdal, which wouldn't be good if there were ABI changes... That's a good point. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
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